Handling the [Billie] Holiday and [Charlie] Parker estates taught me more than I was really ready for about government and business delinquency and the hostility and helplessness of the courts. Not only was I not earning a decent living, there began to be a serious question in my mind whether practicing law could ever be an effective means of changing society or even of simple resistance to oppression. —Florynce Kennedy, 1916 - 2000